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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      June 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511558566
      9780521442596
      9780521617123
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558566
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 155 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 488 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 488 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (29)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (29)
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    The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. These were expressed in terms of the 'common good', 'necessity', and 'community' - concepts that came to the fore in early modern European political thought and which gave expression to the problem of defining legitimate authority in a period of increasing consciousness of state power. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals ought to determine the common good of the community. A new theory of representation and freedom of thought defines the cutting edge of this revolutionary redefinition of the basic relationship between individual and community.

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    ‘ … Miller triumphantly succeeds in a work of sustained sophistication and remarkably wide learning … a powerful and remarkable vision which demands attention.’

    Jonathan Clark Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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